[DesScorp]

"They should have read And the Band Played on. Scathing book on the Gay Community regarding Aids. The Author died of aids a few years later. Good Book"

It was a great book, though perhaps not in the way Randy Shilts meant it to be. Though he ladled plenty of blame on Reagan (much of which I thought was displaced), he didn't hold his fire against the radical attitudes of the queer cult either... the refusal to use condoms, shut down bath houses, stop group/multiple sex, etc. Before Shilts was a queer hero, he was a queer goat, hated for daring to criticize queer responses to AIDS.

[waxer1]

As far as Reagan is concerned I agree 100%. Mr. Shilts was so right in the end.

He had alot of courage to speak out like he did. God Rest his soul.